Windfall

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Todd Powell won $27 million dollars from the Florida State lottery. The windfall ended his marriage. Strangers and friends kept asking him for money. He couldn't sleep, couldn't eat, lost 26 pounds. Money changes things, and a lot of money changes a lot of things. (3 minutes)

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Alix Spiegel reports on an entire community that's turned its back on easy money—for now. Nine years ago a native American community in Minnesota—the Mille Lacs band of Ojibwe—built a casino. The reservation had been poor for a century, but soon they were the second biggest tourist attraction in the state, second only to the Mall of America. They had hundreds of millions of dollars...but of course, too much money can be as destructive as too little...and it's unclear what to do with all the cash. (22 minutes)

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How one woman learned to stop worrying and start spending. Liz Gilbert and her husband Michael Cooper explain how their different ideas about handling money always divided them—until they stumbled into a $10,000 windfall. (8 minutes)